When receiving Liu Zizheng's telegram forwarded by the military headquarters, the fleet led by Xie Rundong was in the Osumi Strait. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After weighing it again, Xie Rundong still ordered the fleet to change course and go to Lushun to help in the battle.

I have to say that Lushun is indeed an eternal pain in the hearts of the Chinese, especially the navy, as long as there is a chance, Xie Rundong does not mind turning Lushun into Keelung, anyway, there are no Chinese in Lushun City now.

In the war from 1894 to 1895, only seven people were killed by the Japanese in the whole city of Lushun, and during this period, they went through the rule of the Russians and the Japanese.

As for those Chinese who are friendly with the Japanese, well, the Republic of China has never lacked traitors.

"Tomorrow morning, we will arrive at Port Arthur, what does this mean for us Chinese, I don't think there is much need to emphasize......" "Wanghai" conference room, although not all of the people present are Chinese, Xie Rundong still said so.

In Lanfang's current navy, all the captains of destroyers, aircraft carriers and submarines are Lanfang's nationals, but not all of them are Chinese, for example, Mario, the captain of the "Huangshan" aircraft carrier, was French before.

Although he is of French descent, it does not affect Mario's service for Lan Fang, as early as when Qin Zhiyuan just purchased four Acorn-class destroyers from the United Kingdom, Mario has already joined Qin Zhiyuan's command, which is similar to Lan Fang's current Admiralty Minister Antonio.

If you calculate carefully, there are actually few people present who are older than Mario's qualifications.

"Tomorrow's combat sequence is still the same as when bombing Keelung, the bombers that took off on the 'Huangshan' are loaded with high-explosive bombs, and the other bombers all use incendiary bombs, we just need to do what we have done in Keelung again......" Xie Rundong is looking forward to tomorrow's scene.

"There should be some emphasis on the distribution of targets, General Liu's troops are currently on the line from Jinzhou to Qingniwa, we must leave enough passages for the tank troops, so as to facilitate the advance of the tank troops, and at the same time, Lushun used to have an arsenal, and we must guard against their ground anti-aircraft fire, and it is estimated that the Japanese will not stand still." Cheng Debai, chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Fleet, interjected.

Half a month has passed since the naval battle, and it is estimated that even if the Japanese are sluggish, they should have begun to attach importance to anti-aircraft firepower by now, and Japan still has a certain degree of military industrial capacity, especially the Taisho three-year heavy machine gun equipped by Japan, which can be turned into an anti-aircraft machine gun with a slight change.

In the history of another time and space, the Japanese did do this, although it was already in the Second World War period, the Japanese still carried out their air defense in this primitive and rudimentary way, and the anti-aircraft machine gun converted from the Taisho three-year heavy machine gun was not a special anti-aircraft weapon after all, and it could play an extremely limited role, that is, it was better than nothing.

In the Japanese concept, defense means defeat, so the extreme Japanese put all their energy into attack and did not think about defense at all.

"Then take off a group of fighters first, go for a reconnaissance and go around to see it, test the strength of the Japanese air defense, and by the way, you can also harass the ground." Xie Rundong is not worried about consumption.

Xie Rundong was not worried that the Japanese would have a plane to fight back, even if Emperor Taisho opened the plane, the Japanese would not be able to develop an aircraft in such a short period of time, let alone have enough pilots.

Relative to the aircraft, the pilot's reserve is a cumulative process.

Lan Fang's luck was that as soon as the plane appeared, Qin Zhiyuan seized this opportunity to organize the world's largest air force. For now, Lan Fang's air force is undoubtedly second to none in the world, pulling more than one street from the British and the French, not to mention the Japanese who are still in the "kite stage".

At present, Lanfang has nearly 5,000 pilots, which is due to the number of workers involved in the production of aircraft in the Renault factory.

The night was destined to be unpeaceful.

As soon as nightfall, Liu Zizheng organized artillery to launch an artillery attack on Lushun's fort.

Compared with the Japanese, Lan Fang's artillery is another branch of the army with a huge advantage.

Having experienced the baptism of the European battlefield, the experience of Lanfang's artillery has been extremely rich, which is incomparable to the Japanese artillery.

In Europe, before the start of each battle, there will always be advanced large-scale firepower preparations, interspersed with counter-artillery and positional shifts, in order to avoid the enemy's firepower counterattack, and the entire firepower preparation time may be two or three days, or it may be a week.

For Japan, the preparation of firepower on that scale in Europe is unheard of, and the Japanese simply cannot withstand the consumption of that intensity, even if the Japanese army doubles its funds in a year, the Japanese cannot afford to play.

And artillery is a scientific arm, especially fire countermeasures, if you don't have enough experience, you can't talk about it at all.

Compared with the Japanese artillery, Lanfang's artillery is all experts.

The gap between Japan and Lanfang is not only reflected in the quality of the soldiers, but also in the weaponry.

The artillery on the Lushun battery is indeed of a large caliber, but its power is not objective, whether it is range or power, it is far from the 120 mm caliber divisional artillery of the Lanfang Army, especially after the Lanfang Army is equipped with self-propelled guns.

Remember the 194-mm self-propelled guns that made a big splash in the Battle of Feron Tade Noy?

That's a headache for the Germans.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, after the Japanese occupied Lushun, all the artillery on the Lushun Fort was dismantled and transported back to Japan for reconstruction, and later after the Russians occupied Lushun, they had pruned the fort again in Lushun, but it did not return to the scale of the Qing Empire.

After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese reoccupied Lushun, and this time the Japanese did not remove the artillery on the fort, but repaired the fort and lived in such a grand manner.

Although there are still cannons on the fort, after all, they are from nearly twenty years ago, and they cannot be compared with the latest type of artillery equipped by Lanfang.

So when the artillery unit of the Lanfang Army opened fire, the Japanese army fell into a helpless situation of being passively beaten.

"All ready, according to their assigned directions, high-explosive shells, five rounds of rapid fire." Cheng Zongyi, the commander of the artillery regiment of the Second Armored Division, changed his excited voice, and it sounded particularly permeable in the dark.

Cheng Zongyi commanded not an artillery regiment, in addition to the divisional artillery regiment of the 2nd Armored Division, there were also divisional artillery regiments of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Foreign Legion.

The artillery regiments of the 2nd Panzer Division were equipped with self-propelled guns, and the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Foreign Legion were equipped with towed guns.

Immediately after Cheng Zongyi issued the order, the battalion commanders of each battalion conveyed the combat mission to each artillery company and calibrated various parameters.

In just half a minute or so, various ministries reported that preparations had been completed.

"Put!" Cheng Zongyi's voice is extremely loud, and it has reached the level of breaking the sound.

No one paid attention to the question of whether Cheng Zongyi's voice was broken, because just after Cheng Zongyi gave the order, almost in an instant, 144 artillery pieces roared almost simultaneously, and then they saw hundreds of red projectiles burst out of their chambers and galloped towards their target.

The shells have not yet landed, and the artillery here has begun to reload and prepare for the next salvo.

Such a procedure, when in Europe, the artillerymen were already very familiar, even blindfolded, and in order to prevent the sound of the cannon from damaging the eardrums, the artillerymen wore earplugs, which made them even more distracted.

When the artillery launched a rapid fire, Liu Zizheng was staying on a hillside and observing.

Through the binoculars, you can clearly see that the outermost forts of the Lushun Fort Group have been flooded with orange-red flames, and you can see that there are Japanese soldiers running and shouting, you can imagine how panicked the Japanese are at this moment.

Since the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese have not participated in the war for nearly 15 years, and the reconquest of Qingdao during World War I could not achieve the effect of training troops in terms of scale and intensity, which made the quality of Japanese soldiers unable to be guaranteed.

The most important thing is that these 15 years are 15 years of rapid development of science and technology, especially during the First World War, the emergence of aircraft and tanks, as well as the application of heavy machine gun crossfire, have changed the form of warfare in the past.

The victories in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War gave the Japanese an illusion that even if their weapons and equipment were inferior, they could make up for it with a tenacious will to fight, so the Japanese did not attach importance to the development of the army from top to bottom, and they were separated from the world army for so long that they could no longer fight.

"If I knew that we would fight like this during the day, maybe we would have broken through the Japanese defense." Wang Dingshan, commander of the Second Division, expressed satisfaction with the results of the artillery bombardment and regretted that the shelling was not launched as soon as possible.

"Stop talking nonsense, what about the anti-tank trenches? What about the minefields of the Japanese? If you want to attack during the day, you can only fill in the lives of the soldiers and let your troops take the lead, okay? Liu Zizheng was not polite at all.

"Okay, Commander, if you want to attack now, I'll go back and prepare the troops." Wang Dingshan is not ambiguous at all.

The troops led by Wang Dingshan are the Foreign Legion, to put it bluntly, all of them are composed of French, Germans and Czechs who have not joined Lanfang nationality, Wang Dingshan doesn't care about their life or death, if they die, they will die, and they will be given a pension.

Wang Dingshan is also an old qualification, and he is a few days shorter than Liu Zizheng's military age, as early as when the Foreign Legion was first established, Wang Dingshan and Liu Zizheng were old acquaintances, so they had no scruples when they spoke.

"Rub, the pension is deducted from your salary." Liu Zizheng helped the military department save money.

"Okay, it's okay to deduct everything, as long as it's to beat the Japanese, I'll donate all my future salary!" Wang Dingshan was really not stunned.

Donate salary......

A life should be donated!

(To be continued.) )